Ohio mother who was fatally shot wrote paper on homicidal adolescents

DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) — Twenty-four years before Tamela Dutcher’s daughter was charged with her murder, Dutcher published a paper examining why adolescents kill.

On Monday, 18-year-old Bryanna Dutcher was charged with murder in connection with the death of her mother. According to court records, Bryanna Dutcher is charged alongside Dajameous Payne, 21, and Christian Evans, 20, in the shooting death of 55-year-old Tamela D. Dutcher on Friday. See previous coverage in the video player above.

Public testimony by Tamela Dutcher in 2021 shows she was a doctor based in central Ohio. She appears to be the same Dr. Dutcher who co-wrote an academic paper titled “The violent and homicidal adolescent. Hearts darkened before time.”…

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